Yeah, I suppose you prefer (American) football, where you spend more than three hours to watch what amounts to an average of eleven minutes of actual playing action. At least 90 minutes of soccer yields 90 minutes of actual soccer.

NFL games are made long on purpose to sell more beer, pizza and chicken wings. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – I just like to think of it as a grass-roots stimulus package for the American economy.

I beg to differ, TomFrank. Ninety minutes of soccer yields 60 minutes of guys rolling around on the ground grabbing their shins or feigning some kind of injury that lasts about 30 seconds. And let’s face it – they play a game where they can’t use their hands. How fucked up is that?